Hot-off-the-grill meat, cold-out-of-the-freezer popsicles, and bags of fireworks purchased from a roadside stand, all enjoyed in the country with cousins galore. Our evening celebration got moved inside by a storm, but as some of us sat in the garage looking out at the winking fireflies against flashing lightning, we agreed nature gave a pretty good show of her own.

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"Where flowers bloom so does hope."